[00:00:00] Foreign. [00:00:05] You're listening to casual talk radio where common sense is still the norm whether you're a new or long time listener. We appreciate you joining us today. Visit [email protected] and now here's your host, Ler. [00:00:21] I don't care where I'm at. Iran, Iraq never hid it. I ran, I stand and fight back. Shout out to the late, great Black Rob. One of the greatest freestyles I think I'd ever heard. [00:00:33] Fresh off the heels of chaos with Israel and Iran and a bunch of comical reactions across social media. I'm not, you know, I'm not personally on it. I watch it because I have business things. But comical reactions got me thinking it was, I don't like to. But I figured, okay, I'll just talk about some of this. I did an update about Iran and kind of the situation and Trump and the deal. I did that on the last episode and I figured, okay, I should, I should try to help some defray, do what I can. I got a small platform, but how can I defray some of the chatter? [00:01:15] And again, this comes from, I was a poli sci in school. It was one of my strengths from the scam that was high school, middle. So part of the what's happening, what's being said is around the War Powers act and you might have heard or seen about, you know, like AOC, she's talking about impeach the president and you know, Mr. Al Green wanna impeach you. He's up there doing it again. He's gonna get shot down. Actually, House already turned it down. How Al Green's talking impeachment, all these ones talking about a War Powers Resolution, all that. And it got me thinking that people don't really understand because this, this is a pattern. [00:01:56] So I thought maybe I'll tell the story or try to tell the story about the War Powers Act. Right. Because maybe people don't know what the story, the true story is. [00:02:09] So the War Powers act, what is it? Well, the, the War Powers act specifically was Congress's it. What they're trying to do is they're trying to maintain strong separation of power between the three branches of government. So they're trying to say you can't go to war without Congress getting involved and saying this is what it is. [00:02:32] Well, and they vote on it. The, the problem is the president by definition is the commander in chief for the military. [00:02:44] When you're commander in chief of the military, it assumes that you have power to order them to do things. [00:02:52] And so there always was this expectation that the President can just basically declare whatever they want. They can bond, they can go to war, do all this other stuff. [00:03:02] Nixon there was. When this first got done, Nixon tried to veto it, Congress overrode him. And they passed this and they basically said, okay, as President, you can't deploy troops. [00:03:15] Can't deploy troops. That's a key word. Without seeking the approval of Congress. [00:03:21] If you can't declare war without Congress's approval is what it is. [00:03:27] So this stemmed from Nam. And if you know Vietnam, you automatically think of Muhammad Ali, right? And Muhammad Ali's infamous statement that said, well, they never called me a. Why do I go? Why? I'm gonna go fight? Why? I'm gonna die for them. Why I'm gonna die for you. They never called me a. They never did that. They didn't do what you did. Right? [00:03:48] That, you know, they never did to me what you guys did to me. So why would I go and die for you and kill them? They. I mean, I got no problem with them. That's what it is. Well, the resolution, the War Powers Resolution rolls through this and it says you got to inform within 48 hours about any military action. [00:04:08] And if there's any US Armed Forces, you got to terminate it after 60 days unless Congress does an authorization. So you can't just wage war is what it means. Nixon vetoed it, Congress overrode it. This all happened in the 70s, okay? [00:04:22] Now every President, pretty much every single one of them since Nixon, and after every single one of them is, has said, we don't have a problem with Congress being involved with the declaration of war. [00:04:38] What we have a problem with is that this limits the power of the President to be the commander in Chief that you're saying you're trying to take away. Because think about it. [00:04:48] The President doesn't have any singular power other than the Commander in chief role. The they. He doesn't have hardly anything. He doesn't really have budget control, right? He doesn't have unilateral hire and fire control. [00:05:01] He can't pass laws. He can't do anything. He's no figurehead. That's what he is. And he has to defer to the other branches, specifically the legislative branch, which is Congress. [00:05:12] So that's what the War Powers Resolution was intended to enforce, is to take away the one last thing that the President has that was unilateral. [00:05:20] The counter argument of every single President since has been, well, fine, if that's the case, we don't agree with it. We agree should be involved but we'll just do our piece that we can do that the War Powers act does let us do, which is things like drop bombs. [00:05:36] You're like, what? [00:05:38] The War Powers act allows the president to drop bombs, but it doesn't let them do. What it did is, is it defined war as there's boots on the ground. We deployed troops there. Right. It didn't define war as dropping bombs. So I want to clarify, when you're hearing on something, you can search this yourself. I encourage you to do so. And I recommend a reputable source. Not Wikipedia. Use an actual encyclopedia, even if you do an online one. [00:06:06] The president, President Donald Trump was well within his rights to drop bombs on Iran. [00:06:12] He was well within his rights to do so. What he can't do, and he knew that, which is why he didn't do it, is he cannot deploy troops to Iran. There cannot be troops there. And if there are, they can't stay there. [00:06:23] You can't have it. You can't engage. You cannot do that if you. And you can't declare war. So he didn't do that. He's threatened, but he never declared war. It's a semantic thing. Every president's done it. Remember Obama dropped bombs, okay? Biden allowed troops to die in Afghan. Every President, George W. Bush, every president going back has dropped bombs in some form because they understand that there are these hostile targets that they have to manage and mitigate. [00:06:55] Part of the problem that Trump was trying to emphasize, that has been emphasized in the past is, well, Iran can't have nuclear weapons. And I talked about this, that are enriched. If you're enriching uranium to a point, it can only be a nuclear, nuclear weapon. And if we don't do something and it turns out to be a weapon, it'll be too late. And then there's all these maps going around about, you know, all the US Cities that we've taken out, if it's a nuclear weapon, and all this fear mongering. What he said, Trump, is, you guys don't get like Tucker Carlson. [00:07:24] Tucker Carlson attacked Trump for going to war when he hasn't gone to war. What he did is we can't allow them to have a nuclear weapon. That's what I'm doing, is I'm stopping what appears to be clearly, by the numbers, an attempt to create a nuclear weapon. We have to act now. But he never declared war. He never sent troops there under the War Powers Act. He was well within his rights to do it. So then why are Congress people coming out like Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene and everybody aoc. Why are they coming out condemning it, calling it war? Because every single Congress, historically since Nixon, has used the War Powers act to basically complain about him. The difference is that now you have social media where there's rhetoric being added that's not accurate. People are within their rights to say, I don't like that you drop bombs. I don't like that you're possibly triggering a war. Like all these are valid rebuttals to be concerned, to be, you know, because Donald Trump ran on the narrative about peace. Right. [00:08:28] What people don't understand because we've been coddled for so many years is that a lot of times peace only came through aggression. Let's go back in time. [00:08:38] Does people, do people not remember the Gulf War? Peace happened through aggression, aggressive action. It wasn't just a bunch of talking. Because a lot of times some of these are not willing to talk, especially if it's a long standing something like Israel and Iran. [00:08:53] So sometimes there has to be a use of force to kind of put the foot down. That's been for decades. Right? This is not new. [00:09:00] Social media is what's new. Social media and influencers spreading a narrative that what Trump is doing is unusual when it's not. These are people that have not studied because nothing Trump did is any different than any of his predecessors. In fact, Obama dropped way more bombs than Trump and there was nowhere near this level of furor during the Obama administration. [00:09:21] So I'm suggesting Trump was within his rights to do what he did. It is perfectly acceptable to disapprove, to disagree, to call him out and say, you ran on this narrative. And now I'm concerned. All of that is valid. Like you should have concerns if it bothers you, and it should, because there is a risk of retaliation. There always has been. Right. You have risk of retaliation from Russia, risk of retaliation from Iran, risk of retaliation from North Korea, China. Absolutely. That is valid. Nobody is dismissing the validity of being concerned about the situation, international situation. We simply have to calm down the narrative and the rhetoric that Trump is somehow doing something different than anybody else did. He's not. He's doing the same thing he's been doing. Congress is doing the same thing they were doing, which is complaining. [00:10:09] Complain. Go right ahead. But let's stop this impeachment garbage. It's not real. He hasn't done an impeachable anything. He is not. Because he did not need to ask permission of Congress to drop bombs. He never has. He can always do that. He cannot Declare war. He hasn't. He can't put boots on the ground. He hasn't. He hasn't done anything to step out of bounds yet. Once he does, if he does, then call him out on it. Fine. Until then, sit back and say, we don't agree with it, we are against it, we think it's a problem. We think it's a risk that, you know, harden the cities and everything else is valid responses. [00:10:45] I think there's too much outrage and too much rhetoric. That's false. It's false. It's not true. And I'm encouraging anybody listening to me. Do your own research through a reputable source. Again, an encyclopedia. There are encyclopedias online. If you can't be bothered to go to a library, whatever you got to do, find a reputable source and search the War Powers act and actually read it. Don't ask AI. Go and read it yourself in a reputable source and you will see what I'm saying is the truth. [00:11:13] That's why I'm telling you, look in a physical book, because it wouldn't have been altered. It's the truth. The President had the right to do what he did. You could disagree with it, but he had the right to do it. It's fine to call him out for the way he campaigned in the contrary. Then you have to hear his side of, well, yeah, but this is a unique situation. They might have a nuclear weapon and then if he didn't do something, people would attack him for not doing something. Right. These are risks that the President has to own. He has to own those decisions. And sometimes people are not going to like it. It's fine not to like it, but we just have to stop the rhetoric. Understand? [00:11:47] Do your own research. [00:11:49] He didn't do anything out of bounds. He do anything wrong. He did well within his rights to do. The War Powers act is a joke. It's a joke because of the intent being we want to take power from the President. That was already granted to him. [00:12:03] But we can't really take the basic power and they found loopholes and they're using the loopholes rightfully so. Thus why have the law? It's not really doing anything other than stopping full scale war. I don't think any president, any of them would be okay with full scale war. I don't think any of them would because they don't see a real need to do it. There's not a single power other than maybe Britain, maybe China and who like there's no other power that would have the stones to go to full scale war, they'd have to all team up and, you know, we have world powers type deal. They'd have to team up and then do that. But they don't have an incentive to. At this point. There's nothing that's been done from an escalation perspective that rises to that level. And so since we don't have that, what's the use of this War Powers Act? It's just a. It's just paper. It's not worth anything. [00:12:57] It's not worth paper it was written on originally. It's not worth the conversation. It's not worth anything. It's just chatter. And I'm encouraging you to ignore the chatter around it. I'm not saying not to be bothered by it. I'm not saying that you should not be angry if you disagree with what he did. All of those are valid. I'm saying this impeachment narrative is a joke. Talking about he broke the law as a joke, talking about he went against Congress as a joke. All that's a lie. He did none of the sort. He did everything within his rights as president. [00:13:27] It's fine to be against it. And again, it's worth revisiting that law because it's a waste of time. But right now, he did what's in his rights he hasn't stepped outside of. We got to see what the future holds. And separately, you know, Israel and Iran didn't hold true to their word where they said there was going to be a ceasefire, then they breached a ceasefire. So Trump's flying out there to try to get some sanity. So you got to give them some credit for at least trying to get some peace. [00:13:54] But in the meantime, you know, we got to watch, sit back and watch things go and hopefully things do not escalate into full scale. And hopefully doesn't take his eyes off other countries as well, because we also have to watch the ones behind her back because they might be trying to do something while we're distracted with this nonsense up in Iran. And we still do. And it is valid that this is a distraction away from America First. Right? So those people that support America first are going to be pissed, and they should be, because this is not America First. [00:14:26] Part of the downside of saying America first is it takes the eyes off the prize of the international shores. So you have to stabilize the international shores somehow if you're going to focus on America. And you have to realize that the reason it's so bad is that Trump's predecessors were not America first, it should have always been America First. Then it wouldn't have fallen out the way that it did. [00:14:46] Since it did, he's trying to. And I said this when he, when he first walked in office. I said, he's walking into chaos. [00:14:53] And I don't know that he's gonna fix in one term. I don't know that he can because there's so much that's broken, fundamentally broken. This is a small blip compared to the larger scale. [00:15:02] You still got planes that are crashing for no damn good reason. You still got Russia out there playing games. You still got rocket man off there shooting in North Korea. You still got China over there taking over. You still got offshoring. You still got the EV chaos. And if you don't know the chaos, they noticed that, duh, the tax revenue from gas at the pump is down. Well, yeah, because you push to the EV agenda. And so people are no longer driving gas vehicles as much. And that's where they were talking about road taxes and all this chaos because they didn't think it through. Where, you know, you should have hybrids right now, where you still have those cars. You should not have left the evs because we weren't ready for it. He's got to deal with that garbage. He's got to deal with the midterms. Right. He might lose some Republicans in the House and Senate. If he does, he's going to become a lame duck earlier than he should. Like there's all sorts of stuff he's going to have to deal with that. I don't know that he's going to pull it off in the term. He's seen the guy. He doesn't look anywhere near as calm as he usually did. He looks stressed, just like Obama did when he went in the second term. It's. It's not looking good. And I'm not advocating any sort of anything other than let's calm the rhetoric down. The guy's trying to do. He's trying to do, whether you agree with it or not, your own business. I'm saying that he's trying to do what he's trying to do, and he's entitled to do it. [00:16:22] And time will tell. Maybe he gets it done. Maybe everything's good, maybe not everything's not good. [00:16:28] I'm still watching the economy closely to hopefully whatever happens turns into a positive for everybody. [00:16:38] Oh.